Georg Neumark

Georg Neumark ( born March 16, 1621 Langensalza; † July 8, 1681 in Weimar ) was a German poet and composer of Protestant hymns.

Life

Neumark was the son of Michael Neumark and his wife Martha. After 1630 Neumark attended high school in Schleusingen and moved to the Gotha later. In 1640 he began to study at the University of Königsberg Jura. Due to the chaos of war, took him to Kiel, where he lived by a position as a private teacher over water. It was not until 1643 he was returned to Königsberg, where he located next Jura always devoted more to the music. He was encouraged and supported therein by Simon Dach.

After successful graduation Neumark first went to Danzig (Gdansk ) and in 1649 to Thorn. Two years later, in 1651, he returned to his native Thuringia. There he gave his uncle, the Councilor Plattner, acquaintance with Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe- Weimar.

The latter appointed Neumark for Kanzleiregistrator and in 1652 librarian. Already in the following year took the Duke Neumark on the Fruitbearing society. He awarded him the company name of the branch end and the motto Useful and ergetzlich. As an emblem Neumark dusky pinks filled was intended for. In the society of Köthen book there is an entry Neumark under No. 605. 1656 he was elected Erzschreinhalter the Fruchtbringende society. In 1642 he wrote the song Who can exercise only the love God.

The Pegnesische flower north took Neumark 1679 as a member. With the President of the Nuremberg poet society, Sigmund von Birken, who worked for him as a " literary manager " in the background, Neumark had an intense but not untroubled epistolary connection.

On July 8, 1681, Georg Neumark died at the age of 60 years in the city of Weimar and was buried there on the Jacob Cemetery. The Protestant feast day is July 9.

Works

(Selection)

  • If only the good Lord can reign, in 1641 ( his most famous song)
  • Poetic and Musical pleasure grove, Hamburg 1652
  • Fortgepflantzter Musical- poetic fancy woods, Jena 1657
  • Christian potentates honor -Krohne, Jena 1675
  • Poetic - Historical Lustgarten, Frankfurt / Main 1666
  • Poetic boards, or in-depth instruction on German versification, Nuremberg 1668
  • The new sprout end Teutsche Palm Tree, Nuremberg 1669
  • Thränendes house -Phillips, Weimar 1681 ( digitized )
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